FERALS Synonyms: 20 Similar and Opposite Words

ferals

noun

plural of feral

as in animals

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invertebrates

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Noun

Rabies is a deadly virus that spreads to people from the saliva of infected animals, according to the Mayo Clinic.

— Nicholas Lentz, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
Heat, sunlight exposure, monsoons, animals and others speed up decomposition, Hess says.

— Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of animals

Noun

There aren’t many of those critters in the Golden State and, when they’re found, officials seek to eradicate them.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Look for a variety of birds of prey, slithering reptiles, and little critters that run from here to there.

— Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of critters

Noun

The animation is truly ugly, the characters moving at the framerate of a PowerPoint and looking less like the animals they’re supposed to be than weird hybrid troll creatures.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2026
Hikers often spot these charismatic creatures perched on boulders or scurrying through wildflowers.

— Brittany Peterson, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of creatures

Noun

Greg and Denise are having some marital issues, but everybody needs to put other concerns aside to stay alive with nasty raptors and other hungry beasties around.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2026
And when that happens, astronomers will set about studying these new beasties with other eyes on the sky to learn more about them and hopefully understand them.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 24 July 2026

Definition of beasties

Noun

Although people sometimes use animals informally to mean only vertebrates (animals with backbones) or even just mammals, in biology the term includes insects as well.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
Others, including Erin Maxwell, an expert on Early Jurassic marine vertebrates at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, disagree.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of vertebrates

Noun

These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.

— Keith Sutton, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-skinned developing world.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026

Definition of brutes

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